Both state laws and federal law make extortion a crime. Thank you, Shirley, T.Extortion occurs when someone attempts to obtain money, property, or other valuables by threatening to commit violence, accusing the victim of a crime, or revealing private or damaging information about the victim. We would recommend you, Bruce Karten, without hesitation, to anyone in need of an excellent criminal defense lawyer. Any period of jail would have been devastating to his chances of recovering from this devastating situation. Thanks to you, his charges were substantially reduced and he received a sentence that allowed him to continue to receive the medical help he needs to recover and look to putting his life back together. I did not know what to expect when I made that first call to you, Bruce, but through the months it took to resolve this, your professionalism, knowledge and patience in explaining what you were planning to do in a way that we were able to understand, made us feel less anxious and more hopeful. These charges could well have resulted in him being sentenced to jail for a period of 10 years or more.
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Please click on the button below and call us today for your free confidential case evaluation. As noted above, the penalties are steep, if convicted. If you’ve been charged with an extortion crime or blackmail, you will need an experienced Criminal Lawyer to defend your case. The Criminal Law Team has successfully defended clients charged with Extortion crimes by, for example, convincing the crown attorney or the Court that, even if there was a threat of violence, the threat was done in circumstances where our client was frustrated by the complainant’s lies and deceit, which were intended to avoid paying a debt dutifully owed to him. We observe that many complainant’s have a checkered past when it comes to paying their bills and we will use this ‘weapon’ to turn the tables back around to put the spotlight on who the real culprit is. The Criminal Law Team recognizes that hard-working clients can be duped of their money, and that a complainant may turn the situation around to take the pressure off of him or her to pay their debts. In the absence of a threat of violence, the dispute is of a civil nature, and should not involve the incursion of the criminal law. Thus, the allegation has nothing to do with the workings of organized criminals. There are many instances where extortion crimes result from misunderstandings between the accused and the complainant, in the context of a dispute over money. When Is Extortion Considered a Criminal Offence? This is thanks to the vast history of this crime, which has been glamorized in the media, and portrayed as one of the main money-making schemes of any criminal organization. Most people automatically associate criminal extortion with organized crime. Because of this, persons accused of an extortion charge will face a crown attorney who will ask the judge to treat the accused as a career violent criminal, who has no desire for rehabilitation, but only the wish to carry on his business for profit at the expense of the bodily integrity of others. The maximum penalty for an Extortion Crime (or Blackmail) is life imprisonment, and the minimum penalty is five (5) years in prison if a firearm is used.īecause this charge is often linked with other offences, such as firearms or weapons offences, the crown attorney is likely to prosecute it to the fullest extent of the law.Įxtortion crimes often imply a level of sophistication that suggest the workings of a criminal enterprise and an intention to employ intimidation, for the purpose of making a sustained profit. What Are The Penalties For Extortion (Blackmail) in Canada? The definition for extortion in the Criminal Code of Canada is the act of making ‘threats, accusations, menaces or violence’ in order to induce the complainant to do something, usually pay money.Ī threat to bring civil proceedings (lawsuit) is not considered a ‘threat’ for the purpose of a charge of Extortion.
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